ROTE ISLAND, Indonesia: The captain of an asylum-seeker boat allegedly intercepted by the Australian navy has told a court how he negotiated a hefty payment to take the migrants back to Indonesia to avoid going home “empty-handed”.
Indonesian captain Yohanis Humiang, 35, is standing trial on charges of people-smuggling after Australian officials allegedly stopped his boat in May and paid him and his crew $32,000 to return to Indonesia.
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